[News] AMD Reaches Out to Linux Users, NVidia Down 10% - Linux

This is a discussion on [News] AMD Reaches Out to Linux Users, NVidia Down 10% - Linux ; Should we really be *happy* about AMD's release of specs?
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| Talk about a limited OS-centered fanboyism versus the serious issues seen in
| the big picture. The OS shouldn't matter as much as Freedomware.
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http://www.libervis.com/topic/should...lease_of_specs
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Watch the followup. The answer is "yes" because Free drivers are arriving.
Nvidia will need to match that because:

Nvidia shares slide 10% on downgrade to sell

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| Shares for Nvidia Corp. dropped more than 10% on Thursday after an analyst
| downgraded the stock from neutral to sell, saying the graphics chipmaker's
| revenue may have reached a peak.
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| It has been 80 days since the last NVIDIA Linux display driver was released.
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| [...]
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| This week is already very busy with the X Developer Summit going on where AMD
| will be releasing their new ATI R500/600 open-source driver as well as the
| specifications and it's very likely that the new NVIDIA 100.xx.xx series
| driver will meet the world in the coming days. Â*
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| This past week AMD raised the Linux graphics bar by not only announcing their
| new fglrx graphics driver, which delivers Radeon HD 2000 support, immense
| performance improvements, and AIGLX, but it was accompanied by an
| announcement that they will be delivering specifications to the X.Org
| development community. These two announcements came after intense work
| internally at AMD and over a long period of time, but literally overnight it
| changed the minds of many Linux users on how they judge this company with its
| once notorious binary blob. AMD has really set a precedence for showing that
| a semiconductor company once criticized to no end with their proprietary
| software can update their views to assist and embrace the open-source Linux
| community while remaining competitive as a company in a triopoloy market.
| They have also thus reaffirmed that Linux is a viable desktop operating
| system. But the ball has now landed in NVIDIA's court. NVIDIA can either play
| ball by pushing forward with a similar effort, and then all of the big three Â*
| GPU manufacturers would be cradling an open-source strategy, or they may find
| themselves in trouble down the road. Â* Â* Â* Â* Â* Â* Â*
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Re: [News] AMD Reaches Out to Linux Users, NVidia Down 10%

Roy Schestowitz espoused:
> Should we really be *happy* about AMD's release of specs?
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>| Talk about a limited OS-centered fanboyism versus the serious issues seen in
>| the big picture. The OS shouldn't matter as much as Freedomware.
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> http://www.libervis.com/topic/should...lease_of_specs

There is another singular point, though - what use are these machines in
the long run? The desktop remains dead as a dodo, so far as I can tell.

If anyone wants to play high-end games now, it's almost certainly less
expensive to buy a PS3 and just buy the game for it.

Why spend hundreds of quid trying to force a non-optimal architecture
into being a high-end graphics machine, when you can buy a PS3 for half
the price?
>
> Watch the followup. The answer is "yes" because Free drivers are arriving.
> Nvidia will need to match that because:
>
> Nvidia shares slide 10% on downgrade to sell
>
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>| Shares for Nvidia Corp. dropped more than 10% on Thursday after an analyst
>| downgraded the stock from neutral to sell, saying the graphics chipmaker's
>| revenue may have reached a peak.
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> http://www.marketwatch.com/news/stor...D&siteid=yhoof
> http://tinyurl.com/2ugba4
>
>
> Yesterday:
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> What 10,000+ People Say About Linux Graphics
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>| ==============
>| Which video adapter brand(s) do you use in your Linux system(s)?
>| ==============
>| Intel: 15.17%
>| ATI: 31.87%
>| NVIDIA: 48.16%
>| Matrox: 1.41%
>| SiS / XGI: 1.61%
>| Other: 1.75%
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> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...item=889&num=1
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> Related:
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>| It has been 80 days since the last NVIDIA Linux display driver was released.
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| This week is already very busy with the X Developer Summit going on where AMD
>| will be releasing their new ATI R500/600 open-source driver as well as the
>| specifications and it's very likely that the new NVIDIA 100.xx.xx series
>| driver will meet the world in the coming days. *
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>
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...item&px=NjA0NA
>
>
> NVIDIA: Got Specifications?
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>| This past week AMD raised the Linux graphics bar by not only announcing their
>| new fglrx graphics driver, which delivers Radeon HD 2000 support, immense
>| performance improvements, and AIGLX, but it was accompanied by an
>| announcement that they will be delivering specifications to the X.Org
>| development community. These two announcements came after intense work
>| internally at AMD and over a long period of time, but literally overnight it
>| changed the minds of many Linux users on how they judge this company with its
>| once notorious binary blob. AMD has really set a precedence for showing that
>| a semiconductor company once criticized to no end with their proprietary
>| software can update their views to assist and embrace the open-source Linux
>| community while remaining competitive as a company in a triopoloy market.
>| They have also thus reaffirmed that Linux is a viable desktop operating
>| system. But the ball has now landed in NVIDIA's court. NVIDIA can either play
>| ball by pushing forward with a similar effort, and then all of the big three *
>| GPU manufacturers would be cradling an open-source strategy, or they may find
>| themselves in trouble down the road. * * * * * * *
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> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...item=831&num=1